Is democracy incrementally dying ?

This is question about worldwide politics. By democracy, I don't just mean voting; I mean independence of media, judiciary and the right to dissent etc. The most extreme examples of this happening are in Poland, Hungary, Turkey and Venezuela. Even in the West we have the NSA and GCHQ overriding privacy rights (with dangerous potential) in the name of security. The Euro-zone imposes economic policy on Greece by specifically saying that money and supranational agreements by previous governments count more than democratic autonomy.

This Paul Mason article is interesting:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/31/democracy-dying-people-worried-putin-erdogan-trump-world

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Cierzo · M

Only direct democracy is true democracy. Parliamentary democracy the way we understand it now is a daughter of capitalism, based on trade, demand and supply. I give you my vote, you give me a certain way to organise society.

As a daughter of capitalism, democracy shows the main flaw of it, tendency to concentration to power. Oligopolies. With the turning of the decades, chances to the consumers/votes have been reduced to a conservatism and socialdemocracy. And, as it usually happens in oligopolies, the main difference between brands is not in the quality of the product but in packaging, and the way it is sold to the public

This process sped up since the fall of communism, and now it is especially blatant,more people are seeing it and realising that democracy is a lie. Now and then a certain product may fool people for a while (Trump), but that's all